A radical Middle East peace initiative drafted by teams of unofficial Israeli and Palestinian negotiators won significant international support yesterday as more than 300 dignitaries gathered in Geneva to promote the plan.

The government will tomorrow declare its war on drugs a "victory beyond expectation", boasting the seizure of more than Bt2 billion in assets and over 40 million methamphetamine tablets during the nine-month campaign.

The government will officially launch its initiative on registration of the poor nationwide early next year, as part of its policy on clearing the Thai kingdom from the poverty problem by 2008, but two provinces in the southern region moved first on the initiative, with hundreds of the poor flocking to register themselves with hopes of their better lives the years to come.

Human Rights Watch urged: India should undertake a thorough and
independent investigation of possible police abuses against Burmese
refugees and asylum seekers during demonstrations on November 12-13 in New Delhi.

The Nagaland’s Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio described the birth of new State of Nagaland forty years ago had heralded "an era of hope" for the Naga people as they had seen more than a decade of "violence and bloodshed."

Tourism experts from India and the European Union (EU)
Friday mooted setting up a working group to iron out
hindrances to bilateral growth and take advantage of
the optimistic mood in the travel trade industry.